Smart Logbook vs CrewSync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Logbook
Effortlessly log flight hours, track currency, and manage pilot certifications. Visualize your flight history on an interactive map and receive timely renewal reminders for medicals and training. Supports various international regulations and export formats.
- Fast and easy flight logging
- Customizable totals calculation
- Currency and limit tracking
- Medical and training renewal reminders
- Interactive flight map
- Electronic signature capture
- Multiple export formats
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Smart Logbook makes logging your flights fast and easy. When you apply for a new rating or interview for a job, you can easily see your flying totals, over any span of time, in any type of aircraft. Track your currency and limits, and get reminders to renew your medical and recurrent training. As your flying experience grows, use the interactive map to see for yourself all the places flying has taken you. Getting started is easy. Download Smart Logbook and log 50 hours of flight time for free. Then make a one-time purchase in the app to continue adding flights. Besides getting the intuitive and powerful functionality Smart Logbook offers today, you'll also receive regular updates with new capabilities. Smart Logbook sync keeps your logbook securely backed up, and lets you seamlessly access it from multiple devices. Sync is included in the free trial. After that, just sign up for the very affordable sync subscription. The first year is free, and you can cancel any time. For more info about purchasing or the sync subscription, see https://thesmartlogbook.discourse.group/c/help/purchase Features: • Extensive customization, with defaults for general aviation and professional pilots. • Calculate your totals, filtered by time period, aircraft type/characteristics, and more. • Currency and limit tracking. Includes rules for FAA, EASA, and Transport Canada requirements, and allows creating custom rules. • Electronic signature capture, compliant with FAA standards. • Track certificates, ratings, endorsements, and medicals, and get notifications to renew items that expire. • Interactive map of your flights, which can be viewed and shared online. • Database of 40,000 airports, and allows adding custom airports. • Print your logbook in Jeppesen Basic/Pro, Transport Canada, EASA, or DGCA (India) format. • Calculate totals for the FAA Form 8710-1 / IACRA. • Add photos of aircraft, models, crew members, certificates, and flights. • Import flights from LogTen Pro or Excel/CSV file. • Export flights to CSV file. • Support for Dark Mode and Sign in with Apple. Privacy Policy: https://thesmartlogbook.com/privacy.html Terms & Conditions: https://thesmartlogbook.com/eula.html
CrewSync
This app helps airline crew manage their schedules, view flight details, and access important information like weather and hotel details. It offers automatic schedule import for supported airlines and syncs across devices, including Apple Watch.
- Automatic schedule import
- Apple Watch integration
- Flight and rest analysis
- Weather and METAR data
- Crew network and sharing
- Calendar sync and export
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CrewSync is the app built by crew, for crew: ABX Air, GOL, LATAM and Azul. Import your roster in seconds and see it on iPhone and Apple Watch, in sync. SUPPORTED AIRLINES • ABX Air: via CrewLink / IADP (NetLine/Crew) • GOL: automatic import via CrewLink / IADP, or by PDF • LATAM: straight from iFlight Crew (SSO), or by PDF • Azul: straight from CAE (SSO), or by PDF • Another airline? Talk to us: appcomin.com/contact NEW: WELLBEING (SLEEP LOG AND COSMIC RADIATION) • Sleep Log: keep a record of your nights next to your roster. If you allow it, the app reads sleep and workouts from the Health app (Apple Watch, Garmin, Samsung); you can also log them by hand • Mark what disturbed the night and see how much you slept in the 24h and 48h before report time • Cosmic Radiation: a dose estimate per flight, month and year, from your roster and public NOAA space weather data • Health app access is optional and read-only: CrewSync never writes to it, and your sleep stays on your iPhone • Informational only: not a medical device, no diagnosis, and it does not determine fitness to fly CREW CHAT AND CREW TALK • Flight chat: the group for your own crew, open 24h before departure. Only crew rostered on that flight get in, and messages disappear afterwards • Crew Talk: the crew community by city and topic. Hotels, restaurants, transport and classifieds • Real moderation: filter on send, reporting, blocking and human review SIRI AND CARPLAY • "Hey Siri, how is my flight in CrewSync": boarding gate, destination weather and your report time, hands free • Next flight, today's and tomorrow's roster, day off, standby and layover. Answers even in airplane mode AIRCRAFT TRACK AND LIVE DUTY • See on the map where your inbound aircraft is coming from, live, and look up any aircraft by registration • Duty bar on the home screen with an alert near the limit ON APPLE WATCH • Next flight and rest in the Smart Stack • Live flight tracking and hotel pickup at a glance • Route map and destination weather ON IPHONE • Hotels and airport pickup on layovers (BETA) • Roster change alerts: what changed, before and after • Duty and rest limits, hours by period, statistics • METAR / SIGMET / weather radar • Meal per diems, catering sheet and salary estimator (BETA, Brazilian carriers) • iPhone calendar, .ics export, Visitor Mode for family PRIVACY Your airline portal credentials stay on your iPhone (Keychain), never on our servers. Rosters live in your account to sync devices. Salary estimator and Sleep Log data stay on the device. PREMIUM CrewSync is free for basic use. Premium unlocks Apple Watch, duty and rest limits, advanced statistics, full calendar, connections, .ics export, per diems, catering and the salary estimator, and more. Plans: Monthly • 6 months (22% off) • Annual (33% off, MOST POPULAR) • Lifetime (one-time). 7 days free for new subscribers, auto-renewing; cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms: https://www.appcomin.com/crewsync/terms Privacy: https://www.appcomin.com/crewsync/privacy NOTICE CrewSync is an independent app, not affiliated with ABX Air, GOL, LATAM, Azul or any airline. BETA features depend on official systems: always confirm critical times and figures on your company portal. REQUIREMENTS iPhone with iOS 17+. Apple Watch with watchOS 10+ (optional). Importing a roster needs internet and a CrewSync account.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CrewSync at every 3 days against Smart Logbook's every 3 months. CrewSync also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Smart Logbook's advantage is ratings volume (153 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Smart Logbook sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CrewSync sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CrewSync holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Logbook has 153 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Smart Logbook's written reviews are positive against 100% of CrewSync's.
Smart Logbook ships an update every 3 months, CrewSync every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Logbook | CrewSync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (153 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 153 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kviation, Inc. | FLAVIO COMIN |
Customer experience
Smart Logbook
CrewSync
Bugs and requests
Smart Logbook
Reported bugs
5 issues- Multiple sectors during one day sorted by name, not by time of departure
- Some airports missing (e.g., VDTI)
- Flights added as simulator flights
- Search function is terrible, impossible to find crew member
- Cross-platform purchase restoration issues (Android to iOS)
Requested features
18 requests- Ability to input waypoints instead of just airports
- Automatically add normal flight times for a route
- Separate flights by year on the main page for better overview
- Display flight direction on the map
- Allow custom names in the create an airport option
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- Filter flights by date (older/newer)
- Edit totals to date hours on FAA print pages
- Show all dates filter by default
- Add search by airport name
- Option to mark/switch view of all visited countries
- Add Airline field
- Add filters by airlines
- Show aircraft model and airline on the same line of the list
- See flight times with different date filters together on one page (e.g., last 7, 30, 120, 365 days)
- Add a signature feature for examiners and instructors
- Configure night time manually in settings for automatic calculation
- Add a prefix with airline name for flight ID
- Log duty time with multiple legs
CrewSync
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Smart Logbook
- Sync (monthly)1 Year trial$1.991 Month
- Sync (yearly)1 Year trial$14.991 Year
- Unlimited Flights (discounted)$19.99
- Unlimited Flights (on sale)$23.95
- Unlimited Flights$34.99
CrewSync
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- 6 Months7 Days trial$22.996 Months
- Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime premium$129.99
Questions
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